Claudia Russo and Carla Dallas are 21, Jessica Cooper is 19.
This is Claudia, back in 2011 when she was 15 years old. Claudia's parents are Italian, but she's lived in Bristol Bay for her whole life. Her dad, Giovanni, owns the fanciest restaurant in town whereas her mom, Adriana, stays at home with Claudia's 6-year-old little sister, Cristina. There's also Coco, who's turning 19 this year and will be starting college in a few months.
Claudia's always loved fashion designing. She learned to sew at a young age and it's her passion. Her parents have already promised to help her out financially once she decides to start her own line but Claudia's not feeling too excited about that. She's always been very independent and would like to do it all the hard way.
During her teenage years, Claudia was very popular. She's always been beautiful and the boys have always liked her. She's not stuck up, though. She's very humble and kind and wants to be friends with everyone.
The girl on the background is Jessica Cooper. She's very shy and has always been a little outshined by her outgoing twin brother, James. Their mother, Kirsten, died in a car accident when the twins were little so they've been raised by their dad, Arnaud. He brought the kids to Bristol Bay when they were 13 as he started a little bar there. James quickly made new friends, while Jessica had only one – the 12-year-old Coco Russo. As usual, his brother managed to steal the spotlight as in Coco's attention. From then on, these three kids were pretty much inseparable.
In the meantime, Coco's big sister Claudia was experimenting with boys. She got her first kiss from a high school senior named Andrew Welsh, but they never officially started dating.
But then, Claudia met Cody Sims. They began as friends but their friendship soon turned into something more. Cody was funny, but not exactly the Prince Charming Claudia had been waiting for her whole life. Still, they clicked and quickly started dating.
He was Claudia's first love. He was sweet and always treated her well. He was a year older than her, but still a lot more childish. He was the typical guy – he loved playing video games and dreamed of being able to do that for a living. And yet, the reasonable Claudia fell in love with him.
It lasted for about a year and a half. It was Cody who ended it, but he wanted them to stay friends. He was going away to college, and wasn't sure their relationship could survive the distance.
Claudia was devastated. She tried her hardest to convince him into staying in the relationship, but Cody had already made up his mind. He still loved her, but he knew this was for the best.
After four months, Claudia got a call from her Freshman year crush, Andrew. He'd just broken up with his girlfriend and needed someone to talk to. Claudia drove to campus to see him and it didn't take long for the two of them to realize they still had feelings for each other.
Back in Bristol Bay, Jessica's dad had just brought home his new girlfriend Gwen and her 17-year-old daughter, Carla. Gwen seemed nice, unlike Carla.
She was just too perfect with her platinum blonde waist length hair and her brown eyes framed by some thick, black eyelashes. And the worst thing about her was the fact that she seemed to acknowledge her perfectness.
And Jessica felt sorry for her ingenuous brother who fell for that witch's sweet talk. It was obvious Carla was just using him.
Claudia was still seeing Andrew, although they weren't still going steady. Claudia was a bit afraid of commitment after what had happened to her with Cody, and from Andrew's point of view, things were great just the way they were. They spent together all the the time they could considering the fact that Claudia was still living in Bristol Bay and Andrew was at the university. He just adored her and had already thought of mentioning the l-word.
Their relationship just got more and more serious once Claudia started college in 2015. Now they were able to see each other every day and in fact, were together almost 24/7.
They finally took their relationship to the next level after months and months of hesitation on Claudia's part. She had already done it with Cody, but was worried sleeping with Andrew would change everything. It soon turned out that it had only made their relationship stronger.
Claudia and Carla had already been best friends ever since Carla moved to Bristol Bay with her mother. They could talk about everything, even though they were very different. At times Claudia needed to talk sense to Carla to stop her from being such a bitch to everyone else, whereas it was Carla's job to persuade Claudia into relaxing a little and not stressing out so much.
While the older kids were having fun at college, 17-year-old Jessica was still dealing with high school. She was doing OK, and was hoping to earn lots of scholarship to get into college. Her dad had never been a rich man, so Jessica knew she'd have to work for her dreams. She was dreaming of becoming a successful journalist, since she had always loved writing. She had always been very different from her brother or her best friend, who both were more into sports.
In October 2015, the Cooper twins and Carla Dallas became officially half sibling as their father and her mother got married.
All three of them attended the wedding with smiles on their faces, since they were sincerely happy for their parents. But underneath it all, Carla and Jessica were not happy to call each other sisters.
But it was the last time Carla was able to mesmerize James. Right after dancing with her, James left Carla unaccompanied and went after his best friend Coco Russo and told her about his feelings for her. That's how the two of them started dating.
The fact that Coco was now going out with James definitely had an effect on the relationship between the girls. Jessica wasn't too eager to hear how it was to kiss her brother, and basically it was all Coco ever wanted to talk about.
Now that Claudia felt like she was finally able to call herself Andrew's girlfriend, she decided she should definitely act like one. Andrew was a promising soccer player, so she went to see all of his games and brought Carla along. The only reason she managed to do that was Carla's inability to neglect an opportunity to meet some hot guys.
Thereby Carla started dating Sam, who also played soccer.
As Jessica started her senior year in high school, she was extremely concerned. She wasn't sure if she'd be able to earn enough scholarships to get into college, since her grades weren't so good. She also had no social skills whatsoever because of her shyness. Maybe Carla had been right all along - maybe she just was boring. James had already decided he wouldn't be going to college so he wasn't even trying to make the effort to get his grades higher.
Claudia would have always been the kind of person you'd call family-oriented. Nearly every chance she got, she would call her parents or her little sisters to just chat with them. She loved her family a lot.
At the beginning of her Sophomore year, Claudia decided it was time to speak with Cody. They'd been living in the same dorm for over a year now and hadn't even said a word to each other. So she went to his door, and asked him if he had a minute. But once she found out he had a girlfriend, she felt like she didn't need to talk to him anymore. Everything was fine - he'd fallen in love with someone, and she had Andrew.
Even if Andrew had already finished college, they were still going on pretty strong. Andrew was now living in a small apartment in Bristol Bay with his best friend Micah, and had just signed a contract with a local soccer team. Claudia was more than happy for him, although she missed him a lot.
At this stage, Claudia was spending all of her time away from college with Andrew. It was nice to get out of the dorm every once in a while and spend the night at Andrew's, in the quiet of his own bedroom. There was still Micah, but he respected their privacy and spent most of the nights at his girlfriend's place, anyway.
Claudia's love life was pretty great, but Carla wasn't able to say the same thing about hers. Sam wanted to break up with her.
He told her he needed a lot more space than she was currently giving him. Carla couldn't understand it, since she was madly in love with the guy. She was definitely heart-broken.
Sam breaking up with her got Carla really thinking. She was sick of college, and she was in a desperate need for a change.
Claudia was being just as a great friend as always and promised she'd work something out.
So the next fall, the girls rented one of the houses in Student Village and moved out of the dorms for a change. It was rather expensive, but Claudia's dad was a restaurateur and Carla's mom worked as the principal of Bristol High. But the truth was, it still wasn't inexpensive.
Jessica had always been afraid of living in a dorm. She couldn't stand the idea of having a roommate and being around so many people she didn't know. That's why she was more than happy when her stepmother suggested she'd move in with Carla and Claudia in one of the private houses. She wasn't thrilled with the idea of living with Carla, but then again, her fear of living in a dorm was much greater than her dislike of Carla.
It wasn't easy for Jessica, at first, to be living with two gorgeous Juniors. But in the end, the fact that Claudia was Coco's big sister helped a lot.
The only friends Jessica had ever had were her brother and Coco. She'd never kissed a boy, nor had she even held hands with anyone. She was kind of surprised when she got to know to a girl named Hailey, who seemed more than eager to spend time with her. They'd met at some of the orientation courses the university offered to the Freshmen, and Hailey had sat next to her trough them all. She was really nice and smart, and also the first person Jessica could have an actual conversation with.
They used to go out for walks around the campus and just talk. They never wanted to say good-bye, so they just kept walking and talking.
One night, Hailey kissed Jessica. Since Jessica had never been kissed before, she didn't know how it was supposed to feel but she knew this had felt right.
They didn't really talk after. They just kept smiling a little.
Afterward Jessica just felt confused – she didn't know what to think. She'd never been in love, so she didn't have any experience.
Claudia and Jessica got along well. The minute Jessica moved in with them, Claudia wanted to be friends with her. They'd never really known each other that well before, even though Jessica used to spend a lot of time at their house when they were younger.
And then there was Carla. Jessica didn't know what to do, since every time Carla saw her, she'd grump. And the truth was, Jessica was getting pretty annoyed by Carla's behavior, as well. She'd walk around the house in her tiny frilly PJs all day without doing any work and just be a slob. She never cleaned anything, and she never cooked.
In October it was time for Claudia's family to meet Andrew. Claudia's dad Giovanni made dinner.
Claudia's mom just loved Andrew. Her dad didn't say much, which probably wasn't a good sign.
Little Cristina adored him, and kept listening very carefully to every word he said.
During the weekends, Claudia always got away from the campus to spend time with Andrew. They were definitely getting serious about the relationship.
The next semester, the girls were spending a lot more time together. Carla still didn't like Jessica, but due to Claudia's constant attempts to talk to her about it, she had learned to hide her repugnance.
At times, Hailey was there, but Jessica just didn't know what to say to her. She didn't know what she felt.
Carla had started dating again. She was now seeing a guy named Alec, a musician.
It seemed like he had had a good influence on Carla, since she wasn't being so mean to people anymore. She was actually very happy with her life.
At the beginning, he hadn't seemed like the kind of guy to win Carla's heart, but now they seem to be a really good match.
• This was a lot of work, but it was also fun to look back at the lives of these girls. I might to do the same thing for all my households.
• None of this is just storytelling: everything that's ever happened to these girls has been inspired by pure gameplay; their wants, fears, ACR...
• These pictures really look crappy. I can't wait to get started with the pictures I've taken with PrintScreen, but that's going to take a while.
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